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61st Pilot for a Day hosted by YARS

Twelve-year-old Celina Dennis (center) of Poland, Ohio, poses with the aircrew of a C-130H Hercules aircraft here, May 6, 2015. Aircrew members from left to right are Tech. Sgt. Ken Filewich, 757th Airlift Squadron (AS) flight engineer; Capt. Steve Miller, 757AS pilot; 1st Lt. Jordan Criswell, 757AS pilot; Master Sgt. Jade Foley, 757AS loadmaster and Lt. Col. Roark Endlich, aircraft commander. Dennis was selected as the 910th Airlift Wing’s 61st Pilot for a Day, being sworn in as an honorary 2nd Lt. and treated to a day of military-themed activities here. Pilots for a Day are local children with chronic or life-threatening illnesses selected by Akron Children’s Hospital Boardman campus. (U.S. Air Force photo/Eric M. White

PHOTO BY: Eric M. White
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